Vaccine objectors at record level

Government figures show increasing numbers of parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children as conscientious objectors.

The number of parents who are telling the federal government they won't be vaccinating their children has doubled since 2006, official data shows.

Federal Health Department figures show 39,523 children were recorded with conscientious objections to vaccinations in 2014, up from 18,899 in 2006.

The latest data means 1.77 per cent of all children were registered as conscientious objectors to vaccination last year.

The figures refer to children younger than seven years of age, whose parents told authorities they were not vaccinating their children because they had a personal, philosophical, religious or medical objection, News Corp reports.